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I’m lucky to be alive after sustaining ‘car crash injuries’ tripping over my cat
NY Post ^ | 11/14/22 | Ben Cost

Posted on 03/01/2023 4:00:47 PM PST by DallasBiff

He suffered cat-astrophic injuries.

A UK man miraculously survived after sustaining a broken neck, fractured spine, smashed ribs, blood in his lungs and other “car crash”-evoking injuries from — wait for it — tripping over his cat.

“I can’t remember much, just falling fast — it was quick and it was over within seconds, then I was at the bottom,” victim Chris Rowley, 59, told the Mirror.

The freak “Apocalypse Meow” accident reportedly occurred on the evening of Oct. 23 while the Leicestershire-based professional musician was home alone with his hairless Egyptian sphinx kitten, Eric Morecambe.

Disaster struck after the wrinkly kitty, apparently feeling playful, dove out and latched onto one of its owner’s legs while he was coming down the stairs.

“It took a bit of a chunk out my leg then I lost my footing,” described Rowley, who reportedly tumbled down 14 steps before arriving at the bottom, where he lay unable to move when his feline put the “hell” in Hello Kitty

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cat; donatefreerepublic; kitty
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To: DJ MacWoW

“The cat didn’t, the stairs did.”

That’s what the cat wants you to believe.


21 posted on 03/01/2023 4:25:44 PM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Varda

Oh, gross. You can see its brain.


22 posted on 03/01/2023 4:25:51 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Psalm 73

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TuNdy6rAQds


23 posted on 03/01/2023 4:25:57 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Twotone

God bless you.


24 posted on 03/01/2023 4:30:08 PM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Pretty ugly, yeah. I like pretty cats.


25 posted on 03/01/2023 4:32:01 PM PST by Varda
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To: DallasBiff

My cat wouldn’t, but you never know. They don’t position themselves at the top of the stairs for saintly reasons.


26 posted on 03/01/2023 4:36:13 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Cats are jerks.


27 posted on 03/01/2023 4:36:17 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Gain of Pfunction. Gain of Pfunding. Gain of Pfizer. Now in control of Project Pferitas.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Yes, it is strange that anyone should dislike cats. But cats themselves are the worst offenders in this respect. They very seldom seem to like one another.”

~ C. S. Lewis


28 posted on 03/01/2023 4:39:30 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: Psalm 73

We used to have a cat named “Peeve” He was our pet peeve.


29 posted on 03/01/2023 4:42:21 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: KarlInOhio

That’s the one.


30 posted on 03/01/2023 4:42:44 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: gundog
#2: "Eric Morecambe. Hell of a name tor a cat."

A more appropriate name would be "Tommy Udo".

31 posted on 03/01/2023 4:46:59 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Its tail looks like a rat tail...!


32 posted on 03/01/2023 5:08:15 PM PST by Does so (What distinguishes today's Russian aggression from that of the USSR?)
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To: DallasBiff

Shoot the cat in case heh.


33 posted on 03/01/2023 5:34:38 PM PST by Bulwyf (Why? )
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To: DejaJude

>> I love cats, had them all my life, but yes, they are capable of doing this.

We love ours too. Yes, cats are capable of great mischief & mayhem. But hey, some of us are just thrill seekers hooked on the adrenaline rush that comes from keeping dangerous animals. :-)


34 posted on 03/01/2023 5:59:54 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Nervous Tick

You gotta respect the cat, after all, they are just miniature lions and tigers. :-)


35 posted on 03/01/2023 6:06:30 PM PST by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: DallasBiff

In our commune we had several cats, one named window pane, another orange sunshine, a purple haze, one named 25, I don’t remember much about them, but they could talk.


36 posted on 03/01/2023 6:10:07 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Jonty30

Be careful, you know how cats love to knock things off of things. ;-)


37 posted on 03/01/2023 6:16:17 PM PST by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: dfwgator

Are all your pets named Eric?


38 posted on 03/01/2023 6:22:49 PM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
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To: Twotone

Our female cat Coco likes to lay on the steps. She won’t attack us as we go upstairs or come downstairs-she’ll just lay there and make us step over her on the way up or down. It’s harder for my wife because she has a bad knee.
If we get past Coco, our male cat Charlie is waiting at the top of the stairs.
He’s a big guy, and stretches allllll the way across the top of the stairs.
One of these days….


39 posted on 03/01/2023 6:31:15 PM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: Clay Moore

There’s nothing so odd about that, Kemal Ataturk had an entire menagerie called ‘Abdul’!


40 posted on 03/01/2023 7:23:03 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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